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ACT Alert: Costa Rica Caribbean coas in state of emergency
03 Dec 2008 08:57:00 GMT
Source: Action by Churches Together (ACT) - Switzerland
Alert Costa Rica - No. 46/2008 Geneva, 28 November 2008 Costa Rica Caribbean coast in state of emergency The Cost Rica National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Response ( ... 
UNODC and ICDDR,B partnership secures a first-ever trial of methadone therapy for injecting drug users in Bangladesh
03 Dec 2008 07:33:00 GMT
Source: ICDDR,B
There are an estimated 15.9 million injecting drug users (IDU) in the world, of whom approximately 3 million are infected with HIV according to The Lancet(1). Estimates place the number of ... 
UMCOR Hotline for December 2, 2008
02 Dec 2008 20:00:00 GMT
Source: United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) - USA

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Urgent Needs Persist: Lutheran World Relief Extends Campaign to End Global Food Crisis
02 Dec 2008 18:43:00 GMT
Source: Lutheran World Relief (LWR) - USA
Baltimore -- <p>In an effort to stop even more people from going hungry and sliding deeper into poverty due to elevated food prices, Lutheran World Relief is extending its request to help & ... 
Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
02 Dec 2008 16:49:36 GMT
Source: Merlin - UK
Members of Merlin’s Emergency Response Team are deployed in Zimbabwe where the UN reports 484 cholera deaths and nearly 11,700 more suspected cases. Zimbabwe’s Minister of Health says cholera now affects nine out of 10 provinces in the country. Merlin is... 
ICTR/BIKINDI - EX-RWANDAN TOP SINGER GETS 15 YEARS JAIL OVER 1994 GENOCIDE
02 Dec 2008 16:27:00 GMT
Source: Fondation Hirondelle - Switzerland
FONDATION HIRONDELLE - HIRONDELLE NEWS AGENCY IN ARUSHA INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA ____________________________________________________________ ICTR/BIKINDI EX-RWANDAN TOP SINGER  ... 
Living positive, celebrating leadership
02 Dec 2008 14:36:00 GMT
Source: ActionAid International- India
Celebrating a journey of change, over hundred HIV positive women in Delhi underscored the need for women's leadership to combat the Virus at the national convention on the World AIDS Day. A ... 
A humanitarian victory
02 Dec 2008 14:27:39 GMT
Source: DanChurchAid - Denmark
On Wednesday the 3rd of December,2008 in Oslo, about half of the world's countries, including Denmark, will sign the international Convention on Cluster Munitions. 
Democratic Republic of the Congo: fresh outbreak of fighting in the east displaces more civilians
02 Dec 2008 11:54:00 GMT
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland
Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Fighting broke out again this week, just as humanitarian agencies like the ICRC were trying to get to grips with the problems thrown ... 


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